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Praised, cursed, often misunderstood, what are KDE's semantic desktop tools for anyway? The idea of taking the myriad kinds of information stored on a computer, and trying to find the relationships between it so it's more usable, has been around for a long time. "Semantics", the dictionary tells us, "is the study of meaning". The goal of a "semantic desktop" is to take all the bits and pieces of information we as users collect over time, and make it more meaningful, and ultimately more useful.

Gnome 3.8 seems like the version that everyone was waiting for. All the essential missing features are finally available, and I expect users will be at least moderately impressed. After a few days testing Gnome 3.8, I am happy to present all the latest and greatest features for your amusement.

One of the smallest quadrotors in the world is also fully open source. Is it a toy, a development, platform, or both?

Debian 7.0 will go stable on May 5th, with Debian 8.0 Jessie to be the next testing versions of the venerable distro

Jon Masters summarises the latest news from the Linux kernel community as the final 3.8 kernel release approaches and preparation for 3.9 begins

If you’ve ever woken up in the morning with a hankering for a Tennis simulation on Linux, you’ve certainly been disappointed each time. Until now, the only simulation we’ve ever heard of — and the only one Google has ever heard of — is Free Tennis.

So rather than spamming everyone's feeds here is a list of some recently released Linux games on Desura, three of which have a native version to buy and a further one comes with the source which you can use.

Linus Torvalds cursed out NVIDIA ten months ago when he was asked about the lack of Linux support for Optimus, NVIDIA's hybrid graphics technology. NVIDIA has now released a beta of its proprietary Linux graphics driver which finally supports Optimus. The sad thing here is that NVIDIA will be praised for the Optimus support, even though they sat back and waited for quite a while to let others build foundations they now use in their driver, which is fairly popular among users, but fairly hated among open source developers.

A full review of Linux Mint Debian Edition 201303.

Zhuhai, China-based Allwinner Technology has added one dual- and two quad-core ARM Cortex-A7 models to its A-series system-on-chip (SOC) family. Recently, the company’s SOCs have begun showing up as the engines powering low-cost Android- and Linux-based tablets, smartphones, and specialized board-level embedded designs. The expanded Allwinner A-series SOC line now encompasses seven models: four single-core [...]

Toradex has released an updated embedded Linux BSP for its tiny, SODIMM-style COM (computer on module) based on Nvidia’s 1.4GHz, quad-core Tegra 3 processor. The Colibri T30 COM is equipped with 1GB of DDR3 RAM and 2GB of flash, and integrates controllers for HDMI, Ethernet, USB, analog input, and various other I/O functions.

This week, we look at proof open source is taking over, why the Chromebook is so misunderstood and how Intel new about the PC's decline before IDC.

Pidgin is a free instant-messaging client that supports a lot of protocols, although better known as a Linux application, Pidgin is free to download and use on Windows as well. Currently, Pidgin is the default chat client of many Linux distros like Mint, Fuduntu, Solus... And on both Linux and Windows, Pidgin can run in your system tray without requiring a browser tab left open, flash when you receive a new message, and be quickly accessed from the taskbar.

Ubuntu Touch, the version of the Linux operating system for smartphones and tablets, is now available.

Burg is a brand-new boot loader based on GRUB. It uses a new object format which allows it to be built in a wider range of OS, including Linux/Windows/OSX/Solaris/FreeBSD, etc. It also has a highly configurable menu system which works in both text and graphic mode. In this post we will show you how to install Burg boot loader in Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail and LinuxMint, this works also on previous releases.

Linux Advocate Dietrich Schmitz takes Gnome 3.8 for a spin. Read what he thinks about it.

"Got code?" is the theme of the Alameda County Apps Challenge 2013.1, the second in a series of unique day-long events designed to challenge the public to create web and mobile applications using Alameda County open data sets. The Apps Challenge will run from 8:30 am to 7:00 pm on Saturday, April 27, 2013 at Berkeley High School, one block from the Downtown Berkeley BART.

Raspberry Pi co-creator Gert Van Loo (pictured) and master-modder Ben Heck will be active participants in electronic distributor Newark element14′s expo booth at Design West (ESC) in San Jose next week. Events and activities at the booth will include hands-on demos, product giveaways, Q&A sessions, and tutorials on developing Arduino-based applications and using ARM development [...]

The U.S. House of Representatives has passed the controversial Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protect Act (CISPA) by a vote of 288 to 127, RT reports.

Declan McCullough of CNET details why the bill — which encourages private businesses to voluntarily share "cyberthreat information" with the U.S. government —has privacy advocates up in arms.

This tutorial shows how you can install and run a Piwigo gallery site with nginx, configured for vhosts, on a Debian Wheezy system. Piwigo is a gallery-website with many plugins. In this sample we configure the vhost "gallery.domain.tld".